Holder



June 10, 1941. E. L. ROBINSON 2,244,804

HOLDER Filed May 16, 1938 Patented June 10, 1941 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE HOLDER Elliott L. Robinson, Oklahoma City, Okla.

Application May 16, 1938, Serial No. 208,155

1 Claim.

This invention relates to roll holders and more particularly to holders for rolls of paper or the like, such as toilet tissue.

The principal objects of the present invention are to provide a holder of this character which is easily and quickly applicable to and/or removable from a support and which obviates the necessity for the usual screws, nails or similar fastening devices, thereby avoiding def-acemen't of building walls and woodwork.

Other important objects of the present invention are to provide a holder economical of manuf acture, efiicient in operation, and which is exceptionally convenient in that it may be arranged to occupy normally unused space and, further, in that the normal function of a conventional water closet reservoir cover or water closet stool seat may be utilized to secure the holder in convenient position.

In accomplishing these and other objects of the present invention, I have provided improved details of structure, the preferred form of which is illustrated in the accompanying drawing, wherein:

Fig. 1 is a perspective view of a waiter closet having a roll holder embodying the features of the present invention applied thereto.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary perspective view of a water closet with a roll holder applied thereto, the flushing water reservoir cover for clamping the holder being partly removed.

Fig, 3 is a detail perspective view of a roll holder embodying the present invention, the roll supporting spindle being shown in disassembled relation to the holder bracket.

Fig. 4 is a vertical cross-section through the roll, holder, and flushing water reservoir on the line 4-4, Fig. 1.

Fig. 5 is a plan view of a blank from which the roll holder bracket may be formed.

Fig. 6 is a detail cross-sectional view through an end of the roll spindle showing a suit-able type of trunnion therefor.

Referring more in detail to the drawing:

I, Fig. 3, designates a bracket which may be formed from a blank of sheet metal or other suitable material, as illustrated in Fig. 5.

The bracket I preferably includes a body memher 2, a roll supporting member comprising arms 3 and 4 of suitable conformation and adapted to be bent laterally relative to the body member on the lines 5-6, as illustrated in Fig. 3. The ends of the arms are provided with trunnion bearing portions 1 and 8 which prefer-ably open upwardly as at 9 and ID to receive trunnions ll, Fig. 6,

fixed at opposite ends of a roll supporting spindle l2.

The body member 2 of the bracket is also provided with an attaching member comprising hooks l3 and M which are preferably formed on the upper edge of the body member at the outer ends thereof and which may be bent on the lines I5 and I6 laterally of the body member in oppositely disposed relation to the arms 3 and 4, and which may be additionally bent on the lines ll and I8 to provide downwardly extending flanges l9 and 20 to complete the hook portions.

'It is apparent that a conventional roll 2] of paper or the like such as toilet tissue may be sleeved in the usual manner on the spindle l2 and the spindle applied to the bracket by fitting the trunnions ll thereof into the bearing portions 1 and 8 of the bracket arms.

One of the principal features of the present invention is the provision of a roll holder which obviates the necessity for the employment of screws, nails or the like to thereby avoid defacement of walls or wood-work in a building, or room, provided with the roll holder. To this end, it is contemplated that the roll holder may be applied to the usual open upper end of a flushing water reservoir 22 of a water closet 23 having the usual stool 24, seat 25, and cover 26. The reservoir 22 is also ordinarily provided with a cover 30 enclosing the upper edges 21, 28 and 29 of the reservoir walls.

In applying the roll holder to the reservoir 22, the cover may be partly removed and the attaching members comprising the hooks l9 and 20 may be hooked over the edge '28 of an end wall of the reservoir, the laterally extending portions 13 and M thereof seating on the edge, and the downwardly extending hook portions of the bracket extending into the reservoir. The cover 26 may then be fully replaced in functional position, as shown in Fig. 1 for clamping the attaching member of the bracket to secure the roll holder in desired position on the reservoir.

While the roll holder has been shown applied to the flushing water reservoir 22 of the waiter closet, it may, if desired, be applied to the upper edge of the stool and clamped in position thereon by the seat 25.

The application and operation of a roll holder of this character are believed to have been explained. It is believed apparent that new rolls of paper may be applied to the roll holder by merely lifting the spindle I 2 upwardly out of the bearing portions for the trunnions thereof in the bracket arms, and by sleeving a new roll of ly and then downwardly relative to the top edge and plane of said body member blank adapted to form a hook for attaching the device to a support therefor, said hook forming arm being of flat sheet structure of sufii'eient thinness to al- 10W a cover normally engaged with the support to assume its operative substantially normal position relative to the support and frictionally clamp the device to the support.

ELLIOTT L. ROBINSON. 

